POSITIVELY FOURTH STREET : The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi B by Hajdu. David - 2002

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Farrar, Straus, and Gitoux, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. When twenty-five-year-old Bob Dylan wrecked his motorcycle near Woodstock in 1966 and dropped out of the public eye, he was already recognized as a genius, a youth idol with an acid wit and a barbwire throat; and Greenwich Village, where he first made his mark, was unquestionably the center of youth culture. nPOSITIVELY FOURTH STREET , David Hajdu recounts the emergence of folk music from cult practice to popular and enduring art form as the story of a colorful not only Dylan but also his part-time lover Joan Baez -- the first voice of the new generation; her sister Mimi -- beautiful, haunted, and an artist in her own right; and Mimi's husband, Richard Fariña, a comic novelist ( Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me ) who invented the worldly-wise bohemian persona that Dylan adopted -- some say stole -- and made his own. A national bestseller in hardcover, acclaimed as "one of the best books about music in America" (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post ) ,POSITIVELY FOURTH STREET is that rare booFine, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not price-clipped or remainder-marked] BUND